.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't recollect a solitary situation where a vice-presidential applicant assisted an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator from Texas would certainly assist him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy confessed that "our team couldn't have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is now obtained knowledge. However how much distinction do vice-presidential selections really create in elections?